Quality, short and stout. Thin hands to hands with a cruxy bulge down low in a tight corner. Step right to the anchor. Prost!

8 Ounces of Guinness

Goodbye Germany

Harder Than Naming a Baby

An American, a German and a Kiwi Walked Into a Bar...

Mars Crack

Deathly Hollow

Rumo

Linter Hands

Two Piece and a Biscuit

Anal Intruder

Chosspector Gulch

Tuning Fork

Layabout

A really cool, solid jamming route to a bouldery finish at the double "tuning fork" cracks.    Scramble up the gully to get on top of the block to the left. Reach across to place a #4 camalot and pull over to the crack and a tiny horizontal edge. Big hands to steep hand jamming goes up to the fork. Take the left fork, place high gear and make moves up both cracks to some good holds and a mantle up to the anchor.

Thin hands in a corner for almost the entire route. Starts with powerful laybacking or thin hands jamming if that's your thing. A pod near the middle allows for a no-hands rest before another strenuous thin hands section. Eases a bit at the top.

Climb a wide start up to a roof.  Pull left around the roof. 

  More fun than it looks, I swear!

Surprisingly accessible and fun wide climbing leads to a chimney in an alcove. Stem and chimney up easy, featured rock for ten feet to the wide crack and the first gear, a #6 camalot. Squirm up the offset wide crack for another ten feet to a wedged chockstone. You can get gear around the chockstone. A few more feet of wide climbing takes you to the alcove and chimney above. Easy but unprotected chimneying gets you out of the alcove and to the anchors.

A very good but very hard finger crack. Starts in a nice textured finger crack and then the feet get really sparse. 

An interesting, perhaps slightly spooky, varied climb. Big hands crack at the start leads to a weird and hollow flake feature, the Deathly Hollow (overly dramatic!) where one can hand jam next to but also reach around the back of. It jams well but don't place protection next to it (I'd like to add a bolt here to help keep the flake from busting and better protect the section.)  

  Move up to a block and some finger crack climbing to a good stance. A short section of thin hands leads to the anchor.

Never heard of a Wolperting? Me neither. Until this route. Enjoyable climbing in a nice corner of good rock on the left side of the area. Stem and layback your way up the wavy, thin hands corner on a miraculous adventure to the anchor.

Short, 5.9 thin hands/hands--A fine intro to the area or warmup. Hand jam up the crack to a tricky, steep bit of thin hands about halfway up. A nice sloping ledge allows for a break before the very short bit of hands to the anchors.

Short, grungy and a bit vegetated wide crack just right of Linter Hands in the small alcove. Surprisingly tricky finger crack to get started up to some gnarled roots before the wide climbing. Dig in (or stem!) the wide crack corner to the top.

If you like flaring off-width and squeeze chimneys, then Nick Rivers has a gift for you.

  Anal Intruder is the obvious offwidth at the Hinterlands. Get into it, work up to "the intruder" block, swing out and into fists/wide hand crack to a ledge. Clip a bolt (drilled on lead during FA) high on the face and grunt up the squeeze to the anchors.

A blocky buttress and dihedral system offering variety stemming, finger-locks and a small crux roof. The roof has a crack left and right of it. There are some chossy flakes over the roof avoided carefully by the left or right crack. The left crack has some dirt in it. The right crack tempts you to grab loose flakes. The right crack is easier. The left crack offers up classic tight hands to finger locks on steep. The main ledge in the lower-middle of the route unfortunately breaks the route up and offers a small cactus to avoid. Finish at a stance and two bolt chain anchor under the summit block roof.

This short but pretty looking wide crack climbs quite well.. It starts out at just about six inches and quickly gets wider, which makes laybacking about the best option, despite its slight overhang. A straight in OW ascent would be an exercise in proud technique.

A compact cragging area with cracks of all sizes and variety. The routes are on the short side, 70 feet or less, with a good variety making for a nice introduction to Capulin climbing. Despite the name, the area has one of the shorter approaches in Capulin but that is not to say it's an easy approach...one must still descend all the way down to the canyon and still do the energy-sapping hike out at the end of the day.  

  The Hinterlands are in a south-facing corner and, like nearly all of the Capulin climbing, bakes in the sun. But because it's a corner the routes on the right side of the area are shaded for a bit in the morning and the routes on the left side shaded in the afternoon.

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Routes in The Hinterlands